On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, a highway=footway, bicycle=designated is not the same as > highway=cycleway, foot=designated. If you just try to understand the > wiki definitions and not over-interpret them, you see that cycleway is > mainly/exclusively for bicycles where pedestrians might be allowed or > tolerated (depending of the country) and a footway is > mainly/exclusively for pedestrians where bicycles might be allowed or > tolerated. > These definitions feet well for countries where the > "mainly/exclusively" role is easy to determin which seems to be the > case in Europe. If it is not possible in Australia (or US), then > create you Australian:Map Features page like the 33 other countries > and write you own refinement of the tag definitions. > > Ok, so having created an entry for Australia ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions#Australia), now does the above rule apply? That is, in Australia, according to the rules I've written, is "highway=path, bicycle=designated, foot=designated" equivalent to "highway=cycleway"?
I'll start a separate thread on the AU list where we can debate the access restrictions. Steve
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